The Compliment is never as good as an insult in this: with compliments, you never know if it's true. With insults, it always comes from the heart.

A Compliment is the toughest thing to take gracefully.

A Compliment is always appreciated — nobody has ever been bored by someone paying them a compliment.

A Compliment is a gift which no person is so poor that he cannot give.

Fear is the fire that melts Icarian wings.

Fear is many-eyed.

Fear is the parent of cruelty.

Fear is the mother of superstition.

The Gift is less important than the spirit in which it is offered.

A Gift is a charming form of bribery.

A Gift is distinguished from a donation in that gifts go to a person; donations to people.

A Gift appeases the gods.

Grief is a room without doors.

Grief is the essence of humanity — Man, when he does not grieve, hardly exists.

Grief is a great struggle — grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.

Grief is a developer of the powers of the mind.